Skip to content
  • Resources
    • For Authors
    • For Media
    • For Educators
    • Conferences
    • How to Order
    • Rights and Permissions
  • About
  • Books
    • New and Forthcoming
    • Series
    • Subjects
    • Publishing Partners
    • Digital Projects
  • Support the Press
Donate
  • Resources
    • For Authors
    • For Media
    • For Educators
    • Conferences
    • How to Order
    • Rights and Permissions
  • About
  • Books
    • New and Forthcoming
    • Series
    • Subjects
    • Publishing Partners
    • Digital Projects
  • Support the Press

Washington University Press Search Results Page

Showing results 1-20 of 47

Show Filters
Searching...
‹123›
Picture Bride

Picture Bride

A Novel

By Yoshiko Uchida. Foreword by Elena Tajima Creef

Seeking an escape from life in her small village in Japan, Hana Omiya arrives in California in 1917, one of thousands of Japanese “picture brides" whose arranged marriages brought them to the United States. When...

ISBN: 9780295751122

more details
In the Year of the Rabbit

In the Year of the Rabbit

A Novel

By Terence A. Harkin

Cameraman Brendan Leary survived the ambush of the Big Buddha Bicycle Race—but Tukada, his star-crossed lover, did not. Numb, Leary returns to combat, flying night operations over the mountains of Laos. When his gunship is...

ISBN: 9786162151767

more details
Sustainable Living

Sustainable Living

By Elsa Nekola

In Sustainable Living, the backwoods and small towns of the upper Midwest are places not to run from, but to return to, to seek refuge in, and to discover unsettling truths. A woman returns to...

ISBN: 9781955082006

more details
The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons

The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons

A Seventeenth-Century Novel

By Kristin Ingrid Fryklund, Mark Edward Lewis, Brigitte Baptandier

The Lady of Linshui—the goddess of women, childbirth, and childhood—is still venerated in south China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from the life of Chen Jinggu in the eighth century and blossomed in...

ISBN: 9780295748351

more details
Bosses of Light and Sound

Bosses of Light and Sound

By Nickalus Rupert

"The stories in Bosses of Light and Sound are varied, daring, and full of surprise. Nickalus Rupert is a serious talent and this is a memorable, winning debut.”—Justin Taylor, author of Flings, The Gospel of...

ISBN: 9780999005095

more details
The <i>Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan </i>Reader

The Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan Reader

Selections from China’s Earliest Narrative History

By Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, David Schaberg

Zuo Tradition, China’s first great work of history, was completed by about 300 BCE and recounts events during a period of disunity from 722 to 468 BCE. The text, which plays a foundational role in...

ISBN: 9780295747750

more details
Further Adventures on the Journey to the West

Further Adventures on the Journey to the West

By Master of Silent Whistle Studio. Translated by Qiancheng Li and Robert E. Hegel . Introduction by Qiancheng Li

As the audacious Monkey King battles his way through a landscape of inexplicable places and unfamiliar passions, Further Adventures on the Journey to the West offers a wry, revisionist critique of the late-Ming fascination with...

ISBN: 9780295747729

more details
Eat a Bowl of Tea

Eat a Bowl of Tea

By Louis Chu. Foreword by Fae Myenne Ng. Introduction by Jeffery Paul Chan

At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their wives or families from joining them. They took refuge from loneliness...

ISBN: 9780295747057

more details
things we

things we'll need for the coming difficulties

By Valerie Vogrin

“Valerie Vogrin’s first full-length story collection is populated with characters who are lost, characters who are wounded, characters rendered with precision and the unflinching eye of an expert storyteller at the top of her craft. . . ....

ISBN: 9780999005071

more details
Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor

Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor

A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection

By Aina the Layman. With Ziran the Eccentric Wanderer. Robert E. Hegel

Written around 1660, the unique Chinese short story collection Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor (Doupeng xianhua), by the author known only as Aina the Layman, uses the seemingly innocuous setting of neighbors swapping yarns...

ISBN: 9780295746111

more details
Oceans of Longing

Oceans of Longing

Nine Stories

By Sitor Situmorang. Translated by Harry Aveling, Keith Foulcher, and Brian Russell Roberts

Born into a high-status family of the Batak ethnic group indigenous to North Sumatra, Sitor Situmorang (1924–2014) was a Dutch-educated Indonesian nationalist who experienced firsthand the transition from the Dutch East Indies of his youth...

ISBN: 9786162151491

more details
Red Gerberas

Red Gerberas

Short Stories

By Sitor Situmorang. Translated by Harry Aveling

Sitor Situmorang, one of the most celebrated Indonesian literary voices of the twentieth century, claimed that all his work dealt with a single theme—“love and wanderlust,” which are “two aspects of one and the same...

ISBN: 9786162151507

more details
Pangs of Love and Other Writings

Pangs of Love and Other Writings

By David Wong Louie. Foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Afterword by King-Kok Cheung

An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an imperial game of...

ISBN: 9780295745398

more details
A Kind of Solitude

A Kind of Solitude

Stories

By Dariel Suarez

Set in Cuba, largely after the fall of the Soviet Union, these eleven stories explore themes of isolation and preservation in the face of widespread poverty and sociopolitical oppression. From a chronically ill santero refusing...

ISBN: 9780999005033

more details
Ventriloquisms

Ventriloquisms

By Jaclyn Watterson

Secretion. Excretion. Severed limbs, lost animals, and porcelain teeth. In these twenty-four radical works of female (dis)embodiment and creation—cries from the dark filtered through the fitful voices of a ventriloquist's doll—Watterson invites readers to explore...

ISBN: 9780999005002

more details
The Kings of Ayutthaya

The Kings of Ayutthaya

A Creative Retelling of Siamese History

By Robert Smith

Part fact, part fiction, part myth, and part legend, this book brings to life the kingdom of Ayutthaya from its roots in the kingdom of Sukhothai to its eventual destruction by the Burmese in 1767....

ISBN: 9786162151347

more details
Why the Sea Is Full of Salt and Other Vietnamese Folktales

Why the Sea Is Full of Salt and Other Vietnamese Folktales

By Minh Tran Huy. Translated by Harry Aveling

This delightful anthology presents eighteen well-known and much-loved Vietnamese folktales. Originally collected and retold by the prize-winning author Minh Tran Huy, they are here elegantly translated by Harry Aveling. The stories tell of charming princesses,...

ISBN: 9786162151361

more details
Suffering Fools

Suffering Fools

By Glori Simmons

A woman running a halfway house of paroled sexual predators is left wondering if her favorite has committed his most unthinkable crime yet. A groundskeeper, who has just discovered that his ex is pregnant, digs...

ISBN: 9780983231776

more details
Swimming in Hong Kong

Swimming in Hong Kong

By Stephanie Han

The award winning stories in Swimming in Hong Kong cross borders — taking place in Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States, and exploring issues of intersectional identity. Han's characters wrestle with their relationships and...

ISBN: 9780983231769

more details
Altermundos

Altermundos

Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture

By Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson, B. V. Olguin

Speculative fiction—encompassing both science fiction and fantasy—has emerged as a dynamic field within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, producing new critical vocabularies and approaches to topics that include colonialism and modernity, immigration and globalization, race and...

ISBN: 9780895511638

more details
‹123›

Newsletter Signup

Learn more about upcoming publications, events, and news from the University of Washington Press.

Sign up today

UW Mailbox 359570

Seattle, WA 98195

 

Fax: (206) 543-3932

Email: uwapress@uw.edu

 

Publisher for the University of Washington
Member of the Association of University Presses

  • Resources
    • For Authors
    • Media Requests
    • Request an Exam Copy
    • How to Order
    • Rights & Permissions
  • About
    • Staff Directory
    • Contact Us
    • Events
    • Conferences
    • Catalogs
  • Books
    • New and Forthcoming
    • Browse Subjects
    • Browse Series
  • Support the Press

UW Mailbox 359570

Seattle, WA 98195

 

Fax: (206) 543-3932

Email: uwapress@uw.edu

 

Publisher for the University of Washington
Member of the Association of University Presses

© University of Washington Press 2023

Created by Supadu